ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,280, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Device and method for monitoring at least three battery cells of a battery" was invented by Alexander Zeidler (Berlin) and Tomasz Efner (Wolczkowo, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring at least three battery cells connected in series. The device includes, for each battery cell, a measuring circuit associated with the battery cell, which measuring circuit has an electrical load and can be switched by a controllable switching element such that the electrical load can be connected into a path parallel to the battery cell associa...